The Gestapo Way

In September 1941, more than a year after the occupation of Norway, Editor in Chief Fredrik Ramm wrote a little essay for his Oslo Morgenbladet:

". . . We must teach [the people] to hunger without being overwhelmed with hate and bitterness. . . . I had thought of starting a study circle. . . . As a theme I would have 'Norway In Its Years of Trial'. . . . Thus we would learn that it was precisely in difficult times that our forefathers put new earth to the plow. . . ."

For writing this, Editor Ramm (a onetime New York Times correspondent) was arrested, sentenced to death. Later the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and Editor Ramm was sent to Fuelhsbuettel prison at Hamburg, Germany.

Last week the original death sentence was indirectly carried out. In prison Editor Ramm contracted double pneumonia. Then the Gestapo knew what to do. Prisoner Ramm was ordered home to Norway. At Odense, Denmark, he died.

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